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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The beginning of the summer pretty much kicks my butt every year. I have visions of days like this saturday... but they are anything but that. I will get used to all this running soon. I am sure of it.Last Sunday was a bit of what I had been wanting. A day at home. I mean ALL day at home. I spent most of the day in the kitchen, with an occasional helper floating in and out. There was a fathers day breakfast of challah french toast, granola and bagels (didn't make them) with vegetable cream cheese. Then, hummus, pita chips, lots of raw vegetables, grilled shrimp with mango salsa, grilled vegetables, a huge salad, corn on the cob, sour dough bread with garlic scape pesto, and warm peach cobbler. I marinated the shrimp in lime juice, olive oil and cilantro. For the mango salsa, I used 2 mangos diced, 1/2 red onion, minced, lime juice and a pinch of cayenne.My absolute favorite was the bread. I posted a photo on flickr asking what it was. I have never seen a scape. Seriously! I know! And Julie mentioned Brian's post and the next thing I knew I was making this. I spread the scape pesto on sour dough bread, sprinkled feta cheese and criss crossed roasted red peppers on top. Baked at 350˚ for 20 minutes. Sliced on the diagonal about every 1 1/2 inches. Seriously delicious. My sister makes this bread with an Italian loaf, basil pesto and jack cheese. Still including the red peppers. It stayed light until around 9:15 pm. Love that. It was just long enough to knit two rows before falling into bed. Not nearly enough knitting time, but I plan on changing that this week.

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looks and sounds wonderful.I always have the "Dream" what the day or week will be but in the end it is usually just the dream as the running and other get in the way. I am learning to accept it. Weekends are especially hard. I need to go through our summer and X off days that will be home days!! They are the best. Enjoy!

Wow - you went all out for a Father's Day meal! They all look yummy; you've got my mouth watering this early in the morning :)Thanks for the links - I've printed off the peach cobbler and I hope to make it soon.

Looks good. My local farmer's market hasn't been selling scapes, but they have been selling baby garlic (almost the same thing) with the long greens attached to a tiny little bulb. It's delicious and not quite as strong a garlic flavor. Yum!

i am going to have to go looking at the farmers market for garlic scapes. i think it might be too late here. boo.anyhow, i hope you get back into the swing of things. we are still working on it here, but it gets better every day.

I just discovered your blog ! Its great and inspirational. I just started knitting and have become obsessed ! Im so new that I am only doing scarves--need lots of info so will surely be back to our blog for insight.I am going to include you on my blog list.Thank you !

Oh, oh, oh! When I saw Thanks to Julie and Brian, over on flickr on the tags, I just didn't know it was me! You are so welcome.I have to try some of this soon.Thanks for the credit because all I did was point the references. I am glad you had a nice saturday, I love that kind of days.

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